Parental Rights and Responsibilities
Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Chapter 23 To Title 63 So As To Recognize That Parents Have The Ultimate Responsibility To Direct The Upbringing, Education, Health Care, And Mental Health Of Their Children; To Prohibit The State From Substantially Burdening Those Parental Rights And To Require The State To Obtain Parental Consent In Certain Circumstances; To Create A Cause Of Action For Violation Of The Chapter; And For Other Purposes.
125th General Assembly
(E) No employee of this State, except for law enforcement personnel, shall encourage or coerce a child to withhold information from the child's parent. Nor shall any such employee withhold from a child's parent information that is relevant to the physical, emotional, or mental health of the child.
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2024-02-28 | Member(s) request name added as sponsor: S.Jones, White, Magnuson, Harris, Pace, T.Moore |
| 2024-01-18 | Scrivener's error corrected |
| 2024-01-18 | Member(s) request name added as sponsor: McCravy |
| 2024-01-17 | Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Trantham, Burns |
| 2024-01-10 | Scrivener's error corrected |
| 2024-01-09 | Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Vaughan, Long, Haddon, Chumley, Beach, Kilmartin, Cromer, Oremus, O'Neal, West, Gilliam |
| 2024-01-09 | Referred to Committee on Judiciary |
| 2024-01-09 | Introduced and read first time |
| 2023-12-14 | Referred to Committee on Judiciary |
| 2023-12-14 | Prefiled |